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Candidate Creighton looked just like what Indiana Republicans like: a native Hoosier, American Legionnaire, father of four, solid churchgoer (Evangelical United Brethren), a self-made rich...
...another reason for wanting to leave the U.S. England was at war, and although he is a pacifist (his personal faith is something akin to the Quakers', though he is not much of a churchgoer), he thought he belonged there. But first he went to see Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who had played some of Britten's music. Koussevitzky gave him $200 a month for five months to write an opera.* Says Koussevitzky: "If he had asked more we would have paid...
Says Tiebout, a religious man but no churchgoer: "Surrender means cessation of fight . . . logically to be followed by internal peace and quiet. Loss of self is basic. And when the individual surrenders his ego, God automatically steps...
...Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, is an outstanding authority on radio waves. He is the father of two daughters (Rosalind, 20, dances in the Anglo-Polish Ballet), a detective-story fan, likes golf, his garden and piano, and is a fairly regular churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain's secret weapon: radar...
...Said 60-year-old General Lee, with stern modesty: "I hope to give my abilities, such as they are, to the church of which I am a member." Correspondents knew that General Lee, an Episcopalian, kept a Bible on his desk and another in his briefcase, was an ardent churchgoer, had been known to preach a sermon on several occasions. They remembered that he called on Pope Pius XII several times, presumably to discuss means of smoothing Protestant-Catholic relations...